[cups.general] Moving from vers1.2.6 Vers1.4.4 on solaris and root pw prompt at cmd line

[Michael Sweet]

Check the policies in the cupsd.conf file - admin operations need to have a "Require user @SYSTEM" line for the client library to use the root certificate.

On Mar 24, 2011, at 2:20 AM, Sean Burke wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> we are in the process of moving from vers 1.2.6 on Solaris 10 to Vers 1.4.4 also on Solaris 10 and the cups admin has noticed that he is now being prompted for the root password when he trys to enable/disable printers from the command line:
> 
> cupsenable mtxpt01
> Password for root on localhost?
> 
> Giving the root password has no effect.
> 
> I can't see anything obvious as to why this would be compared to the previous version.
> 
> A process trace of the new version shows:
> 11064:  open64("/opt/csw/var/run/cups/certs/11064", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
> 11064:  open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR)                        = 5
> ..
> Password for root on localhost? 11064:  write(5, " P a s s w o r d   f o r".., 32)      = 32
> 11064:  read(5, 0xFF0B4E54, 1)          (sleeping...)
> 11064:  fstat64(2, 0xFFBFCCC8)                          = 0
> cupsenable: Operation failed: client-error-not-authorized
> 
> 
> and a trace of the older version shows:
> 21002:  open64("/opt/csw/var/run/cups/certs/21002", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
> 21002:  open64("/opt/csw/var/run/cups/certs/0", O_RDONLY) = 7
> 21002:  fstat64(7, 0xFFBF6AA8)                          = 0
> etc and completes without a pw prompt
> 
> "/opt/csw/var/run/cups/certs/0" exists on both servers, but it looks like the newer version is not attempting to find it and is asking for the pw.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sean
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair